Evolution of Earth's tectonic carbon conveyor belt

RD Müller, B Mather, A Dutkiewicz, T Keller, A Merdith… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Concealed deep beneath the oceans is a carbon conveyor belt, propelled by plate tectonics.
Our understanding of its modern functioning is underpinned by direct observations, but its …

[HTML][HTML] Ordovician palaeogeography and climate change

LRM Cocks, TH Torsvik - Gondwana Research, 2021‏ - Elsevier
New palaeogeographical reconstructions for the earlier Ordovician (480 Ma), and later
Ordovician (450 Ma) integrate revised longitude-calibrated palaeomagnetic reconstructions …

Global warming in the pipeline

JE Hansen, M Sato, L Simons… - Oxford Open Climate …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change yields Charney
(fast-feedback) equilibrium climate sensitivity 1.2±0.3° C (2σ) per W/m2, which is 4.8° C±1.2° …

Reconstructing crustal thickness evolution from europium anomalies in detrital zircons

M Tang, WQ Ji, X Chu, A Wu, C Chen - Geology, 2021‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A new data compilation shows that in intermediate to felsic rocks, zircon Eu/Eu*[chondrite
normalized Eu/] correlates with whole rock La/Yb, which has been be used to infer crustal …

Future climate forcing potentially without precedent in the last 420 million years

GL Foster, DL Royer, DJ Lunt - Nature communications, 2017‏ - nature.com
The evolution of Earth's climate on geological timescales is largely driven by variations in
the magnitude of total solar irradiance (TSI) and changes in the greenhouse gas content of …

Lithium isotopic constraints on the evolution of continental clay mineral factory and marine oxygenation in the earliest Paleozoic Era

GY Wei, M Zhao, EA Sperling, RR Gaines… - Science …, 2024‏ - science.org
The evolution of oxygen cycles on Earth's surface has been regulated by the balance
between molecular oxygen production and consumption. The Neoproterozoic–Paleozoic …

Organic and inorganic carbon sinks reduce long‐term deep carbon emissions in the continental collision margin of the southern Tibetan Plateau: Implications for …

Y Wang, S Quan, X Tang, T Hosono… - Journal of …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
This paper aims to update our understanding of the carbon cycle in the Himalayas, the most
intense collisional orogeny globally, by providing new insight into its impact on Cenozoic …

How Large Igneous Provinces affect global climate, sometimes cause mass extinctions, and represent natural markers in the geological record

RE Ernst, N Youbi - Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) can have a significant global climatic effect as
monitored by sedimentary trace and isotopic compositions that record paleo …

Tectonic degassing drove global temperature trends since 20 Ma

TD Herbert, CA Dalton, Z Liu, A Salazar, W Si… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
The Miocene Climatic Optimum (MCO) from~ 17 to 14 million years ago (Ma) represents an
enigmatic reversal in Cenozoic cooling. A synthesis of marine paleotemperature records …

Arc-continent collisions in the tropics set Earth's climate state

FA Macdonald, NL Swanson-Hysell, Y Park, L Lisiecki… - Science, 2019‏ - science.org
On multimillion-year time scales, Earth has experienced warm ice-free and cold glacial
climates, but it is unknown whether transitions between these background climate states …